John Paul DeJoria Quotes
When you start with next to nothing, all you've got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.
Quotes to Explore
-
To me, it's impolite to go out shopping with no money.
-
We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.
-
Low budget movies make lots of money.
-
Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
-
Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.
-
Carefully calculate the potential size of your market to make sure you can grow. Before starting Mint, I knew that there were about 20 million people who had purchased 'Quicken' or 'Microsoft Money' over the years, and 80 million people using online banking in the U.S. alone.
-
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
-
America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.
-
I started to think about what drives innovation and what its social significance might be. The next step was to think innovators are taking a leap into the unknown. That led me to the thought that it is also a source of fun and employee engagement.
-
Money often costs too much.
-
Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
-
Raise the taxes, and we find less money in our pockets. Lower the taxes, and we've got more money in those pockets, and we spend it on all kinds of things.
-
But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.
-
America's peak years of indigenous innovation ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. There were a few financial panics and two depressions, to be sure. But in this period, a frenzy of creative activity, economic competition and rapid growth in national income provided widening economic inclusion, rising wages for all, and engaging careers for most.
-
Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.
-
I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up.
-
If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.
-
Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.
-
And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.
-
A lot of scaling up a company is not very sexy or strategic.
-
A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion - several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage.
-
The basis of the discovery is imagination, careful reasoning and experimentation where the use of knowledge created by those who came before is an important component.
-
When you start with next to nothing, all you've got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.
